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Organised by the EAA - European Actuarial Academy GmbH in
cooperation with
Česká společnost aktuárů.
Open source tools like R, Python and more recently Julia have
gained a lot of momentum in recent years, not just in popularity
but also in number of contributed code. Their respective
communities are nowadays no longer exclusively composed of academic
researchers and scientists, but also of professionals of all sorts
of backgrounds, especially since the industry and corporate world
have understood the added value of 'community driven software' and
started to plug open source tools into their processes and
corporate tissue.
On top of this, actuaries are confronted with the same issues as
academic researchers and scientists: the production of readable,
shareable and reproducible code and results. In the actuarial
community, R already is a fairly known and used open source
language, Python however a little bit less, even if it's also
packed with potential and even if it disposes of a vast biosphere
of its own. This workshop will also focus on the 'scientific stack'
of both R and Python and draw some comparisons between both worlds
where we will try to show that it's not a matter of choosing
between both ecosystems but of choosing the best of both
(continuously evolving) worlds.
The goal of this two-day training is to introduce the participants
to both open source ecosystems and to get a good understanding of
both languages. However, since both ecosystems are way too vast to
be covered in merely two days, the participants will be asked to go
through the basics of both languages themselves, prior to the
seminar. During the first three hours of the seminar, these basics
which will be shortly revised, but at a higher pace. In this way,
the presenters can focus more on examples and on providing more
hands-on experience to the participants. The course material,
containing the basics of both languages, will be provided by the
organizers several weeks before the beginning of the seminar, such
that the participants will have plenty of time to go through the
material at her/his ease.
Your early-bird registration fee is € 1,193.10 (€ 970.00 net plus
21% VAT, if applicable) for bookings by 30 July 2024. After
this date, the fee will be € 1,574.40 (€ 1,280.00 net plus 21% VAT,
if applicable). |
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